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A159345 a(n) is the number of digits in the decimal expansion of Pi = 3.14159265358979323846264338... needed to contain a repeated n-digit substring. 0
3, 22, 63, 135, 555, 1301, 4607, 15441, 33852, 240488, 694409, 857993, 5563724, 9289707, 28048931, 129440103, 262527982, 1982424660, 8858170624 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

REFERENCES

David H. Bailey, The computation of to 29,360,000 decimal digits using Borweins' quartically convergent algorithm, Mathematics of Computation, 50(1988), 283-296

LINKS

Dave Andersen, The Pi-Search Page.

EXAMPLE

We need 3 digits (141) to find the first digit to repeat (the repeated digit is 1).  We need 22 digits (1415926535897932384626) to find the first 2 digit repeat (the repeated 2-digit substring is 26).

CROSSREFS

Cf. A197123 (the repeated substring)

Sequence in context: A187694 A104604 A139272 * A006532 A178492 A005288

Adjacent sequences:  A159342 A159343 A159344 * A159346 A159347 A159348

KEYWORD

base,nonn,hard

AUTHOR

Peter de Rivaz (peter.derivaz(AT)gmail.com), Oct 15 2011

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